Session 07: The Body in the Centre

The Fabulation Project

Date – 06 Dec 24

Time - 6.30 pm onwards

Location - KNMA Saket

Join us for yet another engaging session from our artist talk series: THE FABULATION PROJECT. It is a series of conversations and encounters exploring contemporaneity in the arts practices, that are also a work of story making for a 'people to come', stories which people shall inherit. In an attempt to contextualise contemporary art practice this series of talks engages with story teller and story making as central and crucial to the discourses. So, we try to unravel layers of an artist’s body of work and look for what they narrate (or choose not to) about the times we live in.

The program will be followed by light refreshments.

Parul Gupta, will share aspects of her art practice and be in conversation with curator Madeleine St. John.

Parul (born 1980) lives and works in Delhi NCR, India. In 2011, she studied for an MA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her works are based on her interest in movement in architecture, where our bodies and our movements are in endless dialogues with our buildings, and through her work, gupta is bringing the viewer’s attention to subtle shifts and movements which are constantly at play in architecture through perceptual, cognitive and scientific enquiries.

Gupta won the Sovereign Asian Art Award 2023, was shortlisted for the Shergil Sundaram Installation Art Award 2019 and is a Mittal Institute at Harvard University fellow for Spring 2025. Her works are in numerous national and international collections. She has exhibited at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Instituto Cervantes, Devi Art Foundation, TRI Art and Culture, and Jawahar Kala Kendra.

Madeleine St. John is an arts practitioner, producer, writer, and researcher whose work at the intersections of culture, care, and philanthropic practice centres on sensuous solutions and curatorial interventions for humanitarian questions. In her roles as an Expressive Arts Therapy facilitator and Director of TRI Art & Culture, Madeleine works creatively across and within various communities to cultivate connection through aesthetic inquiry and cultural programming. By shaping cultures of care through culture as care, Madeleine aims to establish interpersonal, artistic, and organizational practices rooted in a sense of humanness that can help us make sense of our world, by making sense with it.